Winning the Education Lottery

Accuracy in Academia ^ | November 15, 2010 | Malcolm A. Kline

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In New York, a public school system that once was the envy of the world has become an international laughingstock. The laugh track is not likely to die out anytime soon.

“Virtually the entire New York press corps do not read the state test,” Harvard professor Daniel Koretz alleged at The Atlantic K-12 Education Forum. “Last year, the chancellor’s office, in a press conference, admitted that they did not read the state tests.”

Maybe they should see The Lottery instead. The heart-wrenching documentary tells the tale of two families applying to the Harlem Success Academy (HSA). Five thousand applicants participated in a lottery for 475 spots in the charter school.

Twenty-seven-year old filmmaker Madeleine Sackler, who directed The Lottery, claims that HSA “is one of the best performing schools in New York and one of the most protested.” ACORN has made it a particular target, Sackler said at The Atlantic forum on November 10, 2010.

Interestingly, Sackler says that “We weren’t allowed to film in traditional public schools” in New York. The Atlantic Forum was held at the Washington, D. C. offices of the Gallup Organization, which partially underwrote the conference.

For the families participating in the contest Sackler relates the story of, the stakes are, if anything, higher than those vied for in the other New York State Lottery. “Fifty-eight percent of black fourth-graders are functionally illiterate,” the script of The Lottery notes.

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“Fifty-eight percent of black fourth-graders are functionally illiterate,” the script of The Lottery notes.

That's by design. That is exactly how you keep 98% of all Blacks to vote Democrat.

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HSA “is one of the best performing schools in New York and one of the most protested.” ACORN has made it a particular target

Says it all...